Images now available for purchase
30 May 2009
I’ve selected a smattering of particularly popular images and posted them to a portfolio that’s available to purchase from today as well as selling images via Etsy at http://johnmatthews.etsy.com. I’m happy to consult with you to create a unique piece to fill a particular space in your home or office.
“Serene” on display at the Viewfinder Gallery
10 January 2009
The image “Serene” from my series Riverside Enigmas is on display at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich, London from 10 January to 1 February 2009. It’s a terrific space and very near the Thames Path where I made these riverside images.
About my images
I am a cultural migrant who photographs the liminal, transitional spaces in which I seem to be suspended forever. My obsession with place and identity and the fervent desire to find a new home assumed a greater urgency when I moved to London several years ago.
The specifics of everyday life and our
perception of those qualities fascinate me. I blame my myopia for
this obsession which began at a very young age. My
‘nearsightedness’ made close objects appear sharp, but everything
beyond an arm's-length away looked as smeary as a water colour
painting. This defect of sight results from the same flaw that
produces a blurry photograph - my eye sits too far from my cornea
like a lens fixed too far from the film or digital sensor. Before I
finally discovered contact lenses as a teenager, I thought the
world quite uninteresting. The glasses I wore reinforced my sense
of otherness and distance. Although contact lenses allow me to see
as others see - or so I suppose - I still do find it difficult to
entirely cast off that early sense of separateness from the
world.
With the narratives in my pictures I bridge the distance between
myself, the world and you.